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Ickle Helena G. Wells (looktothefuture) wrote in makebelievecomm,
@ 2014-01-21 03:04:00

Entry tags:

ickle helena wells, myka bering

>> Are you alright?

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	agent_bering 2014-01-21 09:41 am UTC (link)
	>> What do you mean? >> But yes, I'm alright. Are you? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	looktothefuture 2014-01-21 09:54 am UTC (link)
	>> I mean with my older self being younger, are you alright? >> I'm fine. ~~I still don't like~~ ~~Why do I grow up to be them?~~ >> Though Joan is a child now, too. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	agent_bering 2014-01-21 09:56 am UTC (link)
	>> Oh. It's weird. She's quite different than how she usually is. But I'm fine. It will be okay, these things usually don't last. >> That's good. >> Oh. That's not good. How is she? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	looktothefuture 2014-01-21 10:25 am UTC (link)
	>> Why is she always so drastically different? Can she not choose one way of life and stick to that? >> She wants to go home, she misses her parents. Ani came over as well, so we're trying to keep her calm and explain this place to her a bit. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	agent_bering 2014-01-21 12:18 pm UTC (link)
	>> Tragic events change people sometimes. Especially those who are very passionate to begin with. >> Should I come over and help? Or you can come over here. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	looktothefuture 2014-01-21 12:57 pm UTC (link)
	>> Perhaps she shouldn't have been passionate to begin with, then. >> You can come over if you want. I think she's around my age, so I was going to offer her some changes of clothes for the duration of her being here. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	agent_bering 2014-01-21 01:18 pm UTC (link)
	>> I think you know that's not possible. Do you think Ani could stop being passionate? >> That's a good idea. I'll come over to make sure you are all alright. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	looktothefuture 2014-01-22 02:16 am UTC (link)
	>> No. Still, she didn't have to become a monster. >> Okay. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	agent_bering 2014-01-22 02:39 am UTC (link)
	>> Can I ask you something? It will be a personal question. You can see it first and then decide not to answer. >> I'll be over shortly. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	looktothefuture 2014-01-22 02:56 am UTC (link)
	>> Yes, you may. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

agent_bering
2014-01-22 03:05 am UTC (link)

>> This question is very mature. But I think you're thoughtful enough to understand why it's using grotesque imagery.

>> How would you feel if Ani was murdered? Would you feel differently if you saw it happen? Would you feel differently if you were made to watch it happen? If everything you tried to do to prevent it failed and there was no one there to help you during or after?

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	looktothefuture 2014-01-22 04:58 am UTC (link)
	[The response comes after a minute or two of contemplation.] >> I would be understandably upset and angry. I would want justice. But how is becoming a killer and trying to destroy the world justice? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	agent_bering 2014-01-22 05:11 am UTC (link)
	>> I don't think it is justice, that's why I stood up to her and made her stop. >> But I just wanted to know your honest thoughts about what it might feel like to go through something tragic like that. That's all. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	looktothefuture 2014-01-22 05:17 am UTC (link)
	>> May I ask you a question of a personal nature? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	agent_bering 2014-01-22 05:18 am UTC (link)
	>> Of course. It would be hypocritical of me to tell you no. But, as I gave you the option to not answer, I hope you'll give me the same courtesy. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	looktothefuture 2014-01-22 06:01 am UTC (link)
	>> Of course, you don't have to answer if you do not want to. >> Knowing what she is and what she did to you and so many others, how can you possibly be with her? [For the record, she's doubting Myka will actually answer that.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

agent_bering
2014-01-22 11:39 am UTC (link)

>> That is a very complex answer that is hard to summarize through text. But I'll try to give you some idea to start.

>> When I take in everything she's done and everything about her, for me, I can forgive the whole picture. I don't for a moment believe that her attempt to destroy the world was right. But I can accept that she's done more than that.

>> I do respect that you come to a different conclusion. Many people feel the same way you do about this.

>> I don't know if you know this, but she didn't go unpunished for her attempt to destroy the world and for the crimes she committed leading up to that. She was sentenced and imprisoned for what she did. Just not in the conventional 'behind bars' sense.

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	looktothefuture 2014-01-22 12:10 pm UTC (link)
	>> How could anything else she's done even make you forgive the wrong she's done? Murder and the destruction of the world aren't things that can be forgiven. >> I am glad she was punished, she deserves to be punished. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	agent_bering 2014-01-22 12:19 pm UTC (link)
	>> Forgiveness isn't for anyone to decide but the person giving it or withholding it. What can be given is different for everyone, and I can't expect you to forgive her anymore than you can expect me not to forgive her. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	looktothefuture 2014-01-22 12:29 pm UTC (link)
	>> From my understanding, forgiveness is supposed to be earned, not just freely given. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	agent_bering 2014-01-22 12:31 pm UTC (link)
	>> Do you know what happened after she tried to destroy the world? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	looktothefuture 2014-01-22 12:37 pm UTC (link)
	>> Other than you saying she was imprisoned, no. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

agent_bering
2014-01-22 12:55 pm UTC (link)

>> Oh. Well, this will take a few texts to explain. Maybe more than a few.

>> First, the Regents sentenced her to have her consciousness separated from her body and placed inside a device that turned her into a hologram. Her body was given new memories and placed in witness protection.

>> But a man name Walter Sykes needed her knowledge of a back entrance into the Warehouse. To keep him from rejoining her consciousness and body, Helena agreed to my partner destroying the device used to separate her, which would have killed her consciousness.

>> Before we were able to do that, Sykes' men stole the device and recombined Helena's consciousness with her body. Shortly after that we caught up with them.

>> At that point Helena helped us stop Sykes. But here things get messy because of time travel.

>> Sykes brought a bomb powered by an Artifact with him. In Helena's timeline we couldn't disarm the bomb, she was able to redirect a portion of the shield over the Warehouse there to protect the rest of the world from the bomb to create a bubble of protection around me, Artie, and Pete.

>> She couldn't save herself because the bubble had to be made from the outside.

>> So she's from a timeline where she died protecting us.

>> However, Artie used an Artifact to reverse time to before the bomb went off, and we had enough time to disarm the bomb, which she helped with. I'm from this timeline. And over the next year and a half, Helena has helped us save the world one more time, and was invaluable help with tracking down another Artifact.

>> Okay, so that's what's happened since she tried to destroy the world.

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looktothefuture
2014-01-22 01:21 pm UTC (link)

>> So okay, she willingly agreed to be killed, then she died when the bomb went off. Meaning she's currently dead from her perspective and this place brought her back to life?

>> Then her death and bomb exploding was changed by someone using a time travel artifact and she helped do good things. And that's the timeline you are from.

>> That's rather confusing, but I understand the main points.

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	agent_bering 2014-01-22 01:24 pm UTC (link)
	>> Yes. >> Also yes. >> And, yes, it is confusing. Time travel is always confusing, I've just learned to accept it. Like quantum physics. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	looktothefuture 2014-01-22 01:30 pm UTC (link)
	>> It would seem so. Are things relating to the Warehouse always that confusing? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	agent_bering 2014-01-22 01:33 pm UTC (link)
	>> More or less. We sometimes get days that are easy, straight forward, only involving an Artifact that could, say, turn a wedding party into a bee-hive-mind. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	looktothefuture 2014-01-23 06:16 am UTC (link)
	>> That...sounds entirely strange. Certainly not how a wedding should go. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	agent_bering 2014-01-23 10:13 am UTC (link)
	>> It was. Especially when they tried to kill us. >> I'll be over shortly, okay? [Unless ickle Helena wants to bring up more about Older Helena, Myka thinks this is a good place to let the conversation about her end for now. Little bits at a time, you know.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	looktothefuture 2014-01-23 11:39 am UTC (link)
	>> That is decidedly unpleasant. >> Okay, thank you. [And nope, the ickle's fine with letting that drop for now!] (Reply to this) (Parent)